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...black leaders, all three courses pose risks. A return to purely passive, conventional protest would destroy the morale and thrust of the black movement. Black nationalism, if carried to extremes, could lead to separatist schemes and policies which are unrealistic for an 11% minority that must live with whites. As for "revolution," it is clearly impossible, and irresponsible talk about it, however justified the anger that prompts it, can be dangerous because it may mislead blacks about the extent of their power and may serve to confirm whites in fear and repression. The most hopeful strategy thus seems...
...Back Door. The litany of grievances is long. Most blacks believe that they are recruited and paid like hired hands, trained to entertain the ticket buyers-and then asked to leave by the back door. At college, a black is awarded an athletic scholarship and then thrust into a situation for which he is culturally as well as academically ill prepared. As with white athletes, teachers will give him passing marks so that he can maintain his eligibility as a player. But once that eligibility is used up, black athletes charge that "it's strictly fend for yourself, black...
...conflict in Laos, though bloody enough, has not approached the scale of the war in Viet Nam. Now the situation is suddenly changing. Events in Laos and Cambodia last week may well prove to be a watershed in the protracted Viet Nam War. Indeed, they could change the whole thrust...
...Hard" drugs and impure drugs have begun to infiltrate the high school market with greater frequencyin recent months, and drug raids in Cambridge are now averaging more than two a month. Most busts are directed at dealers, and not at high school users. The thrust of the raids is to stifle the flow of impure and addictive drugs- especially heroin- to small children. The number of heroin addicts of high school age and under has risen rapidly during the past year and a half throughout the country, and as Cochran put it, "It's a sad situation when eight...
Fellini calls his Satyricon a "science-fiction trip into the past instead of the future." It blasts off with a scene so brilliant that the whole picture shivers from the thrust. In a masque, a musically flatulent clown capers on a stage, mocking the audience with scatological jokes and gestures. A grinning idiot is carried onstage and led to a chopping block. A headsman mimes a blow with his weapon -then chops the victim's hand off to a chorus of cackles, while freshets of blood stain the scene. It is a savage fragment of the cinema of cruelty...